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    Word 2019 Beginner: Word Essentials 2019, #1
    Word 2019 Beginner: Word Essentials 2019, #1
    Word 2019 Beginner: Word Essentials 2019, #1
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    Word 2019 Beginner: Word Essentials 2019, #1

    By M.L. Humphrey

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    In Word for Beginners, M.L. Humphrey introduced readers to the power of Microsoft Word.

     

    Now in Word 2019 Beginner, Humphrey presents a guide tailored specifically for users of Word 2019.

     

    In this book, you'll learn the basics of Word that you need to know to use the program on a daily basis. Topics covered range from how to open and save a file to how to enter text to formatting of text, paragraphs, and pages, and wrap up with printing your document.

     

    Word is the go-to word processing program in use today. Whether you're learning for business or school, it's an essential program to learn. So what are you waiting for? Get started today.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherM.L. Humphrey
    Release dateFeb 8, 2021
    ISBN9781393804277
    Word 2019 Beginner: Word Essentials 2019, #1
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    M.L. Humphrey

    Hi there Sci Fi fans, my name is Maurice Humphrey.I am a Vermont native, husband, father, grandfather, well over 60, Navy veteran, retired IBM engineer, retired printer repairman, Graduated: Goddard Jr. College, VT Technical College, and Trinity College. Over the years I’ve written technical articles, taught technical classes, and presented at technical conventions.I’ve been reading science fiction for over 50 years now. First books were “Journey to the Centre of the Earth” by Jules Verne and “The Stars Are Ours” by Andre Norton. I’ve read and collected many great stories, and a considerable amount of junk ones as well. I’d say by now that I probably have a good idea of what I consider a good story.

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      Word 2019 Beginner - M.L. Humphrey

      Word 2019 Beginner

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      WORD 2019 BEGINNER

      WORD ESSENTIALS 2019 - BOOK 1

      M.L. HUMPHREY

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Basic Terminology

      Absolute Basics

      Basic Tasks

      Text Formatting

      Paragraph Formatting

      Other Tips & Tricks

      File Options Customized Settings

      File Info

      Page Formatting

      Printing

      Conclusion

      Control Shortcuts

      About the Author

      Copyright

      INTRODUCTION

      The purpose of this guide is to introduce you to the basics of using Microsoft Word 2019. While there are a number of other word processing programs out there, Word is still the gold-standard go-to program in use in large portions of the corporate world, so if you’re going to be involved in a white collar job (and even some blue collar jobs), being familiar with Word will be a significant advantage for you. And essential for many jobs. (The days of having an assistant who could do those things for you are gone.)

      Word at its most basic is incredibly simple to use. You open a new file, type in your text, save, and done.

      But chances are you’ll want control over the appearance of what you type. Maybe you need to use a different font or font size. Maybe you want to indent your paragraphs. Or include a bulleted or numbered list.

      That’s where this guide comes in. First I will walk you through the absolute basics (open, save, delete) but then most of this guide will be focused on what to do with your text once it’s been typed into your document.

      Having said that I’m not going to cover everything you can do in Word. The goal of this guide is to get you up to speed and comfortable with what you’ll need for probably 98% of what you’ll use Word for on a daily basis.

      Some of the exceptions to that are if you’re working in an environment where you need to use track changes with a group of users or you need to create something like tables or complex multilevel lists. Those are more advanced topics that are covered in Word 2019 Intermediate.

      The goal here is to give you a solid foundation that you can work from.

      As noted in the title and above, this book is written using Word 2019. I previously wrote a book, Word for Beginners, that was written using Word 2013 and was written to be generic enough that any user of Word could learn the basics from it. But this guide is written specifically for Word 2019, so I’m not going to mention what wasn’t possible in older version of Word, for example.

      As a beginner it probably won’t matter. Where it becomes more relevant is at the intermediate level. But just so you know. The focus in this guide is Word 2019.

      Alright then. Let’s get started with some basic terminology.

      BASIC TERMINOLOGY

      Before we get started, I want to make sure that we’re on the same page in terms of terminology.

      TAB

      I refer to the menu choices at the top of the screen (File, Home, Insert, Design, Layout, References, Mailings, Review, View, and Help) as tabs. If you click on one you’ll see that the way it’s highlighted sort of looks like an old-time filing system like below with the Home tab.

      Menu tabs

      Each tab you select will show you different options.

      For example, in the image above, I have the Home tab selected and you can do various tasks such as cut/copy/paste, format paint, change the font, change the formatting of a paragraph, apply a style to your text, find/replace words in your document, or select the text in your document. Other tabs give other options.

      CLICK

      If I tell you to click on something, that means to use your mouse (or trackpad) to move the arrow on the screen over to a specific location and left-click or right-click on the option. (See the next definition for the difference between left-click and right-click).

      If you left-click, this generally selects an item. If you right-click, this generally creates a dropdown list of options to choose from. If I don't tell you which to do, left- or right-click, then left-click.

      LEFT-CLICK/RIGHT-CLICK

      If you look at your mouse or your trackpad, you generally have two flat buttons to press. One is on the left side, one is on the right. If I say left-click that means to press down on the button on the left. If I say right-click that means press down on the button on the right.

      Not all track pads have left- and right-hand buttons. In that case, you’ll basically want to press on either the bottom left-hand side of the track pad or the bottom right-hand side of the trackpad. Since you’re working blind it may take a little trial and error to get the option you want.

      SELECT OR HIGHLIGHT

      If I tell you to select text, that means to left-click at the end of the text you want to select, hold that left-click, and move your cursor to the other end of the text.

      Another option is to use the Shift key. Go to one end of the text you want to select. Hold down the shift key and use the arrow keys to move to the other end of the text. If you arrow up or down, that will select an entire row at a time.

      With both methods, which side of the text you start on doesn’t matter. You can start at the end and go to the beginning or start at the beginning and go to the end. Just be sure to start at one end or the other. You cannot start in the middle

      The text you’ve selected will then be highlighted in gray. Like the words sample text in this image:

      Sample of selected text

      If you need to select text that isn’t touching you can do this by selecting your first section of text and then holding down the Ctrl key and selecting your second section of text using your mouse. (You can’t arrow to the second section of text or you’ll lose your already selected text.)

      DROPDOWN MENU

      If you right-click in a Word document, you will see what I’m going to refer to as a dropdown menu. (Sometimes it will actually drop upward if you’re towards the bottom of the document.)

      Dropdown menu

      A dropdown menu provides you a list of choices to select from.

      There are also dropdown menus available for some of the options listed under the tabs at the top of the screen.

      For example, if you go to the Paragraph section of the Home tab, you will see arrows next to the options for bulleted lists, numbered lists, multi-level lists, line and paragraph spacing, shading, and borders.

      Menu section dropdowns

      If you click on any of those arrows you’ll see a list of additional choices.

      EXPANSION ARROWS

      I don’t know the official word for these, but you’ll also notice at the bottom right corner of most of the sections in each tab that there are little arrows. If you hold your mouse over the arrow you

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